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myrna_bird

LJI S8 W33- Ensemble- Marta's Dolls

Jul 08, 2012 17:46

Marta stood up and stretched. Her back ached from hours of hunching over her desk. Late nights like these, she needed to remind herself again why it was she suffered the crowded bus rides, the tiny efficiency apartment, and the boring classes of community college.

It had all started with paper dolls.

Paper dolls were figures cut out of paper or thin ( Read more... )

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medleymisty July 8 2012, 23:47:00 UTC

Awww, I really liked this. Go Marta go! You can be an awesome designer. :)

myrna_bird July 9 2012, 01:15:29 UTC

Thanks for reading. It was fun to write some of my own childhood stuff into this fictional piece!

adoptedwriter July 8 2012, 23:50:21 UTC

This is a cool story! I wish my kids played real paper dolls more. It was a lost art, sadly, by the early 1990s, when computer graphics took over.
AW

myrna_bird July 9 2012, 01:16:52 UTC

Thanks for stopping by. My research says the paper doll collecting is big now. I sure wish I still owned some I used to have.

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myrna_bird July 9 2012, 13:28:38 UTC

Thank you. I tapped my own childhood for Marta's memories so it was really fun to write about them.

jacq22 July 9 2012, 06:13:12 UTC

Oh I had them and so did my daughter, they were such fun!!!

lovely story as beautiful as ever well done my friend.

I was mad about fashion from an early age, and dreamed many dreams about being a designer....

myrna_bird July 9 2012, 13:30:35 UTC

Oh me too, in another life maybe! Still can't resist project Runway on TV. Do you get that there? How's the knee coming along? Thanks for reading and commenting. <3

pixiebelle July 10 2012, 03:28:45 UTC

I cut up calalogs to make paper doll clothing too! I wanted to learn to sew my own clothes in high school but never had a chance to be on a sewing machine.

Go Marta :)

myrna_bird July 10 2012, 13:27:22 UTC

Thanks for your comment. I hope you have learned to sew by now. You can get a good basic machine for around $100.and teach yourself. Even small jobs can save you a lot of money even if you don't decide to make your own clothes. I wish I had a nickel for every pair of pants I've had to shorten! Most of my sewing now is for charities but through the years, I sewed for my kids and their dolls, made baby gifts, toys, curtains, pillowcases, just hundreds of things. :)